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            <description><![CDATA[When Webber Wentzel published its Virtual Assets Regulation Across Africa guide, the continent's regulatory landscape was still taking shape. While many jurisdictions had begun considering how to regulate crypto assets, legislative frameworks remained fragmented and, in some cases, uncertain. Since then, several jurisdictions have made meaningful progress. Some have refined existing regulatory frameworks, while others have introduced entirely new regimes designed specifically for virtual ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[For over a decade, the question of whether South Africa's competition authorities have the power to prosecute foreign companies for alleged anticompetitive conduct occurring entirely offshore remained contentious. The Constitutional Court has answered this in a unanimous judgment by Judge Owen Rogers, handed down on 30 June 2026. The ruling resolves jurisdictional disputes that lay at the heart of South Africa's longest-running competition enforcement saga, the forex cartel case, which began in ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Imagine a South African cannabis sector in which the law is not a maze but a map. A cultivator knows whether cultivation is for private use, hemp, medicine, industrial processing or export. A patient can access safe, tested products through an appropriate medical route. Adults, where the law permits access beyond private use, can do so through a transparent and properly controlled mechanism. Rural and legacy communities can participate in lawful value chains on terms that recognise their ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[SARS has released final additional guidance on the Advanced Pricing Agreement (APA) programme in its guide dated 7 August 2026. The guidance updates the conditions for multinationals to participate in the pilot programme. The pilot programme, which takes effect on 1 September 2026, invites eligible taxpayers to apply and is limited to bilateral or multilateral APAs with countries that have a double tax agreement (DTA) with South Africa. Although the guidance does not require the DTA to be based on the OECD Model Tax Convention, the DTA must include Article 9, which deals with associated enterprises, and Article 25, which provides for the mutual agreement procedure, so that the APA can be negotiated.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Competition Commission has published draft amendments to its Small Merger Guidelines for public comment, aligning the small merger notification criteria with the revised merger thresholds that took effect on 1 May 2026. On 14 August 2026, the Competition Commission (Commission) gazetted draft amendments to its Guidelines on Small Merger Notification (Small Merger Guidelines) and invited interested parties and stakeholders to submit written comments within 30 days of publication.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mozambique has spent a decade being defined by one story. It may be time to pay attention to another. The first is well known. The discovery of vast offshore gas reserves in the Rovuma Basin attracted TotalEnergies, Eni and significant long-term capital, positioning Mozambique as one of Africa's most consequential energy stories.]]></description>
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            <title>All about the frequency: ICASA's 2026 spectrum overhaul explained</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa's spectrum landscape is shifting. Between April and July 2026, the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (the DCDT) published the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, 2026 (the ECAB) and the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) published a series of draft and final notices in the Government Gazette that, together, reset or propose to reset the rules for mobile, satellite and innovative shared-access spectrum use. If you operate a network, provide satellite services or are simply keeping track of where South African connectivity is headed, here is what has changed, when it changed and why it matters.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[When a senior advisor or executive walks out the door, especially to join a competitor, your restraint of trade clause is often the only thing standing between you and serious commercial damage. Here is what recent South African case law tells us about what works, what does not and what you need to do now. The starting point in South African law is that a restraint of trade clause in an employment contract is valid and binding. It is not automatically contrary to public policy simply because it restricts competition. Restraints of trade are treated as enforceable agreements, and it is the employee seeking to escape the restraint who bears the onus of proving that enforcement would be unreasonable.]]></description>
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